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Born of two eggs in the one womb of their beloved mother Ammu, Rahel and Esthappen have little to cling to but each other, and the occasional joy that passes through their young lives like a cool breeze on a sweltering Indian day. When Ammu, divorced and disappointed, returns with the twins of her family home in southern India, into the arms of Ammu's eccentric relatives, a tragedy begins to unfold that will propel them toward a fate that has perhaps stalked them from their inception. December 1997 publication date.

"[S]ome of Roy's finest touches spring from her skill at registering the unsayable terrors lodged below the surface of everyday things, in particular, the terrors which take hold of the children....'The God of Small Things' is a cleverly crafted, often witty and moving first novel by a talented new writer."

Shirley Chew, Times Literary Supplement, 05/30/1997

"A rarity in post-colonial fiction: a largely-conceived and ambitious book about private life."

Michael Gorra, London Review of Books, 06/19/1997

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